Guardian Illustration

Inspiring leaders to improve the lives of children.The National College (formerly NCSL) is an organisation providing support and training for all leaders of children’s services in the UK including schools and early years settings. A change in name reflected an extension in their remit to aiding leaders of children’s services as well as schools last year. Consequently we pitched to design the illustration which would support the editorial appearing in the Education supplement of the Guardian. Using our own in-house illustrator we sketched a proposed graphic that would communicate the editorial content clearly.

The approved graphic was developed to visually sum up the resulting structure of the new National College remit placing key details within the illustration. The community of services the remit reaches surround the centre of the illustration, clearly demonstrating the far-reaching nature of the new configuration.

Since publication the illustration has been requested and used as an educational resource at universities and colleges around the UK.